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The Connection Between Anarchist Black Cross Network and the Boston Indymedia Center

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Recently, proto-revolutionary activity by the Boston Anarchist Black Cross got them on the Homeland Security radar map as a nascent Commun-esque terrorist group.  Local member John Riley wrote to the Boston Herald to enhance his notoriety and explain the organizational hit list his group is developing.  Herein we expose bABC's connections to Boston Indymedia Center.

Anarchist Black Cross Network is a decentralized communist revolutionary organization based on Russia's Anarchist Red Cross.  It is bridged to Boston Indymedia Center via BAAM of Boston.  Most IMC and BAAM members share the ABC belief system, and are provided realspace by the Lucy Parsons Center.  The nature of all four organizations are decentralized, therefore the deliberately loose nature of noospace connection constitutes a firm connection in terms of organization and revolutionary planning.

The ABC Offensive platform:

"1 .Organizing defense committees on behalf of prisoners framed or railroaded through the Capitalist courts for their political and social beliefs or prison organizing.

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5. Securing Anarchist and other revolutionary materials for prisoners to read, and fight for their right to receive this literature if prison officials try to ban or prohibit such literature for any reason.http://www.anarchistblackcross.org/abc/network.html

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8. Organizing and/or participating in coalitions with poor people's movements, prison support, Third World/people of color, Women's rights, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender, Church, Left-wing, and other diverse groups, so as to win them over and to integrate the prison struggle into the general movement for social change."

e.g. ABC is a Marxist organization trying to consolidate decadent scum into a united front against western civilization.


BAAM affiliated with Boston ABC and IMC:

"The Anarchist Black Cross Network (ABCN) is a decentralized network of local groups that work strategically against capitalism and the state by targeting its prison system and the prison-industrial complex. The Network supports imprisoned comrades through letter-writing campaigns, legal help, and visits when possible. It also works to call attention to the rising incarceration rate and its link to capitalism, along with exposing the truth behind the private prison industry and for-profit imprisonment."
"The Anarchist Black Cross of Boston is affliated with the larger Anarchist Black Cross Network (ABCN). Boston-ABC fits into this picture as the the defensive arm of the local anarchist struggle. We hope to help forge an organized support network for local activist in need. We've all seen the Boston Police Special-Ops Strike Force and their black-on-black uniforms. We all know why they do not wear badges. This is the latest local aspect of the nationwide paramilitarization of the police forces. We must act now and build organizations to help defend our communities from this threat."

"BAAM has regular monthly planning meetings on the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm at the Lucy Parsons Center"

http://www.baamboston.org/abc/

Boston ABC
PMB 258
198 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116

The second and third links of  BAAM are:

Lucy Parsons Center - Radical bookstore in Boston. Valuable resource for anarchists in the metropolitan Boston area

Boston Indymedia - Post your news and views. Stay informed about your community.

First link under Prisons is:

Anarchist Black Cross Network - Resist and support those who are resisting

Tightening the connections:

ABC events are transmitted by Boston IMC using the Radicalendar link, the "news postings" on Boston IMC consist of ABC style propaganda and announcements to gather for upcoming anarchist events (flash protests).  Most other posting is deleted from IMC, whose ultraleft-leaning censorship policy is developed in a collective soviet style forum.  Lucy Parsons Center hosts these various groups, i.e IMC on Monday, BAAM On Tuesday, Northeast Antifa on Wednesday.  The groups cross-promote and cross-pollinate.  Literature and posters from all groups at circulate in the same room at LPC.  There is no other type of organizing at this location which could prove that it is merely a random assemblage of groups with differing views.

Further, the structure of the IMC server, which invites open posting, is heavily content managed by a small kadre of anarchists, socialists, and gender marxists to ensure that anything critical of the ABC worldview is deleted, hidden, or disrupted.  The controllers of IMC resort to blacklisting, and libel entrapment schemes when they fail to contol the debates they host.  Both IMC and ABC exist due to a proliferation of free resources and free society, wherein they beg or borrow the tools necessary to fight it.